Quotes About Policy

The nation's fiscal operating debt was already $10.6 trillion on the day President Barack Obama took office in January 2009. By the end of January 2012, however, the fiscal operating debt had increased 44.5 percent to $15.4 trillion. As of April 12, 2015, the fiscal operating debt was $18.152 trillion—a 71 percent increase in less than six and one half years.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.

It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be

Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.

Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.

We are ready to deal with any President [of U.S], but of course, and I mentioned that, it depends on the readiness of the future Administration.

Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

The day the world runs out of oil is much farther in the future than green activists care to admit. That is clear from data compiled by Dr. Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research.

I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.

My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.